From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 23:57:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA23521 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.uniserve.com (dns1-van.uniserve.com [204.244.163.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA23512 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:57:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkuir@uniserve.com) Received: from p1-33.van.tvs.net [204.244.158.112] by mail.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 0xLNOd-0005zj-00; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:57:31 -0700 Message-ID: <34446AE5.CB7845DB@uniserve.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:04:05 -0700 From: Justin Muir X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: lean mean kernel with sound!! + dumb questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello. I'm a recent ex-DOS junkie who recently installed FreeBSD. This an overwhelming OS to use after years of DOS, but I do understand the concept of making a leaner kernel w/o all the unused drivers but I'm uncertain as to how to accomplish this. Btw - I would also like to install drivers for my SB16. Any tips or encouragement? One other thing, how can I see where I am amidst all the directories and files? Or does that not matter now that I've got a real OS? ps- how do I distinguish between types files etc since I can't seem to find extensions?